Title of your post checks out.

This should be at +5 informative.

Because if we take this stupid idea of purposeful sulfur aerosol injection as the cure for AGW, what to we do when we run out of high sulfur fuels?

I suppose we could start cutting down trees and burning elemental sulfur directly.

The real takeaway is that we're getting irrefutable proof that we screwed up bigtime and some people want to continue it as somehow good. Or as Homer Simpson noted when talking about beer “Here’s to alcohol: the cause of, and solution to, all of life’s problems.”

Sulfuric aerosols aren't helping us at all. The most dangerous words are actually "Let's use this effect to lower the temperatures!"

Note - there is a small amount of Nitric acid in rain that is a helpful source of nitrogen, but not involved in this discussion.

Yes, those sulfuric aerosols will have a temperature reduction effect. They also have other effects that are a real problem.

Acid rain. Destroys buildings and forests, and is harmful to microbial and larger life forms, kills aquatic life, has negative impacts on human health and isn't a good thing in general.

The "cure" is worst than the illness if we think that we're going to fix Global warming by polluting the crap out of the atmosphere for the next thousand years.

In other words for those of you who do believe in our products don't waste your money today; wait until next year - says executivie nitwit.

How many software companies have self destructed due to this mistake now?

Along the lines of, "Anywhere is walking distance if you have the time."? (Steven Wright)

Just curious, what's your solution to making people better drivers that isn't also running into that nanny state thing you mentioned?

There's way more people on the road today than yesterday, going to be more people on the road tomorrow than today. At some point, just saying "make better drivers" doesn't work anymore without some sort of intervention. We can build it into cars or we can hire 100,000 more patrol to nanny us. But either way you slice it, I'm curious how you purpose we fix things that isn't "nanny state".

I'm all ears.

Yes. It absolutely will do this. But if a powerful console is what you were expecting, clearly you haven't been paying attention to Nintendo since the GameCube. They aren't looking to capitalize on hardware power but on their Intellectual Property. That's literally what they have going for them. The fact the people will fall over themselves in droves for a good Mario platformer, another open-world Zelda, a shoot 'em up Metroidvania, a Mario Kart, or any other of the IP that Nintendo commands a pretty hefty loyalty over.

I mean every go round we hear everyone shouting the "shortcomings" of Nintendo's console or their shitty consumer tactics of having everyone rebuy all their old stuff for the newest platform. And every time, millions of people empty their pockets for Nintendo, showing that all that lackluster hardware or all that abusive relationship that Nintendo puts their customers through means jackshit at the end of the day. Because people kept begging Nintendo to depart them of thousands of dollars of cash.

So yeah. The console will be absolute trash from a pure specs view. Yeah. So bullshit marketing thing will happen and suddenly you need to rebuy literally everything for the new console. And lots of Nintendo fans will absolutely do it to a degree to make Nintendo profitable yet again. Or it'll be a WiiU, but the biggest killer of the WiiU was Nintendo hoping that the Wii name would carry people into it. The marketing for the new console was trash so it never had the penetration to draw any third party from the word go.

That said, I won't be buying Nintendo's newest trash. I'm pretty done with supporting their massively hostile approach to consumers. But even so, I'm not doubting that should they actually market this fucking thing, that they'll convince enough people with their strong IP to fork over another couple of thousands on a garbage system.

Really? Hard to imagine?

Hmm lets see I could spend 20min crawling around inspecting this thing, the last 5 I have looked at having been just fine or I can just check this box, and play with my phone some more...

Really when it comes to stuff like this the only way is either legalistic consequences for getting caught. You signed this without inspection, no discussion, no exit interview, security will escort you from the building now.

Otherwise you have to be doing multiple inspections where the inspector is not told if they are in fact doing the first or second inspection, and discrepancy triggers a third inspection with again some sort of punitive action taken against individuals with to many errors and omissions on their inspections. Its not cheap but failure is really unacceptable this is what you do.

Support of unions is just brain damage on display. You got rlsiverdope here screaming about anti-trust and collusion in every odd post, while every even post is how we don't have enough collusion in the labor market...

Funny how the quality problems with 787s started cropping up in the years just after the SC plant unionized too.

Ah right, we need unions but the union failed because it wasn't union-y enough or something...

Well lets ask the question another way as well. Why what real use would there be for a system be if it was truly gaped? How can analyze intelligence outside the context of public information?

14th Amendment.

It says ANY person. In fact, the sentence before this one indicates citizens and this sentence indicates ANY. So that's always been known to mean, "applies to anyone". So anything happening within the United States isn't deprived of "due process". So a foreign company has the right to ask the court if it has a first amendment right or not. They are allowed "due process" but that doesn't mean that they have every right that say a citizen has. It's an incredibly important difference here.

More specifically, if you're into that kind of thing, the 14th indicates that no person can be deprive of rights without a "procedural due process" at minimum. That is, we are to assume that right (whichever one we're talking about) exists until it doesn't and that we prove that it doesn't via a process that is founded in the rule of law. There's also substantive due process, I won't get into that, but that part is important to understanding TikToks argument. But they are allowed to ask the question because procedurally we cannot deny TikTok a petition to review. So on a procedural basis, they can come before the court. Likely their entire argument after getting though the door will be substantive.

The entire point of all of this was, that even with the first part of the 14th in section 1, the slave class was removed and slaves were moved into the citizenship, prior to this entry slaves were considered a distinct class separate from citizens, so basically non-citizens but not Indians nor foreign invaders. They were just their own special kind of class of person. The due process clause ensures that there is always an avenue for anyone to petition the government. As a kind of good working example, say a State was reluctant to grant a slave citizenship. This part allows the court to completely ignore an argument from the state indicating that the former slave has no standing in a court open to only citizens. ANY person may petition the court.

watch the video; they are not attacking the address assignment on the VPN side, they are attacking the hotel/coffeeshop side.

The entire attack comes down to
1) VPNs that explicitly allow split tunnel (I assume a lot of those consumer vpns probably do so they don't break IPP, home DLNA etc)
2) VPN clients that are to dumb to know how to clean up anything but the default gateway etc
3) abusing routing precedence, traffic headed to the most specific route.

Yes what the VPN daemon should do obviously is:
get the default gw at connect time
add a static route for the vpn end point via that gateway
change the default gateway to inside of the tunnel
remote ALL other routes
(put things back upon disconnect)

Of course end users don't like this because - they can't print, they can't answer their phone on the computer, my chrome cast does not work... blah blah; but if your VPN daemon isn't either in control of the routing table or using some other facility (say iptables, a network filter driver on windows, whatever) to bypass routing and force the next gateway to be the remote peer via the tunnel - well you just have virtual networking, not virtual PRIVATE networking.

Asymmetrical warfare against non state actors. It's tough, but then again, it's been a while since they've pulled anything off here in the states. So I'd say, they ain't all that any more.

Probably not the best plan, homie.

There was talk the Microsoft with its vast riches should consider exiting tech and selling off its tech products (that were good enough at the time according the financial press) like windows and office to care taker software houses like CA while turning themselves into a tech focused hedge fund.

I sure wish they had. It would have done a lot to take the Microsoft Management culture influence out of tech, and that would have been a good thing